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They been getting mighty fluffy and now have a bit of a contam on them, but my cats casings still won't seem to pin. They've been in the fruiting chamber a couple days shy of a month after being put in the incubator for 4 to regroup, but they've looked the same aside from a small amount of growth for 2 weeks now. It's actually incredibly healthy looking stuff, but it just keeps building up. She fans them plenty and keeps the moisture where it's suppose to be with some perlite and a few mistings now and then. So do i just need to wait longer or is there something i'm missing...?

edit: the light cycle is about 14 hours light 10 dark, maybe more hours of light in some cases

sounds like you have overlay. what is your relative humidity? casings need 85-90% RH

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I don't know about humidity, i mist plenty and have perlite in a small container, so it's probably 100% most of the time. And yeah, a month is way too long now that i've really looked around at what peoples times have been. I'm actually getting pins right now on one of them, but it's also getting a contam. Figures. Thanks for the posts guys! I'm just going to keep fanning and keep hoping.

Mine kind of did the same thing, they just *POOF* puffed out and were crazy looking, i just gave them a lot more light and viola, Knots Knots Everywhere. The mycelium tissue needed to stop growing. Ta-Da.GL

Oh yeah and I misted them and shouldn't have, the perlite kept it ok in terms of humidity, but you probably don't need to mist..infact..you might wanna stop.Waterlogging the mycelium won't help you or your poor fungus.GL, I hope it works out

Alot of misting with the humidity already being at 99% from the perilite can easily cause them to take longer to fruit. They'll come but you should be carful in the future of overwatering. There is a good post in the Archieves under the Casing section VERY detailed about watering. Hyphaes guide is also a must read which is also to the top of the forum. A pic would help us if you can get one up to determine your course of action but waiting it out..the casing should pin soon. Make sure your keeping an eye out for contams as well..especially on the sides and bottom if you can see it.

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Yeah, two of them have already fallen to contams now, and still...no pins. I've just given up on them, i'll check them every few days to see if something has died or a pin has formed, but i'm pretty sure they're all just going to die now. It's sad, but life has in store for me many more casings, so i'm not fretting as much as i was.

I just like seeing them grow so much, and not to mention what we get after we pick them... oh well.